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355: HOME BIRTH STORY - Choosing Home Birth as an Evidence-Based Minded Person Plus Letting Go, Accepting Pain and Being Patient with Shira Page
355: HOME BIRTH STORY - Choosing Home Birth as an Evidence-Based Minded Person Plus Letting Go, Accepting Pain and Being Patient with Shira Page
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Length:
64 minutes
Released:
Nov 9, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Can you over prepare intellectually for birth?
This is a topic that comes up in our interview with Shira Page, NP and CLC.
According to Shira, when it came to her first birth:
“I had been planning to deliver at home my entire life because my mom gave birth to my brother at home. We did Bradley, I read all the books, watched all the documentaries, and listened to DIAH non-stop. My labor at home was over 40 hours of nonstop stabbing back pain and non-progressive labor. We went to the hospital to get morphine and sleep and returned home to continue to try to labor. After another day at home doing all the things, we transferred to get an epidural. The hospital experience was okay but still had a lot of moments where I felt decisions were taken from me. I felt that I over-prepared intellectually and didn't focus on letting go, accepting pain, and being patient.”
We talk about the details of her first birth, then details of her second, including some of her postpartum and breastfeeding journey.
Things we talk about in this episode: La Leche League, Business of Being Born, co-care model, Bradley Method, hospital transfer, mental preparation, prodromal labor, postpartum trauma and anxiety and placenta removal
Links:
Shira’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dyadsupport/
Shira’s website: www.DyadSupport.com
Doing It At Home book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098GVJ9KL?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860
DIAH website: https://www.diahpodcast.com/
DIAH Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/3jKtIYv
DIAH Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doingitathome/
DIAH YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGoKeBfEZ143sWU7V9I5Gdg
DIAH Store: https://yoursuccessfulhomebirth.com/
DIAH Merch: https://bit.ly/3qhwgAe
Donate to DIAH: https://bit.ly/3qgm4r9
This is a topic that comes up in our interview with Shira Page, NP and CLC.
According to Shira, when it came to her first birth:
“I had been planning to deliver at home my entire life because my mom gave birth to my brother at home. We did Bradley, I read all the books, watched all the documentaries, and listened to DIAH non-stop. My labor at home was over 40 hours of nonstop stabbing back pain and non-progressive labor. We went to the hospital to get morphine and sleep and returned home to continue to try to labor. After another day at home doing all the things, we transferred to get an epidural. The hospital experience was okay but still had a lot of moments where I felt decisions were taken from me. I felt that I over-prepared intellectually and didn't focus on letting go, accepting pain, and being patient.”
We talk about the details of her first birth, then details of her second, including some of her postpartum and breastfeeding journey.
Things we talk about in this episode: La Leche League, Business of Being Born, co-care model, Bradley Method, hospital transfer, mental preparation, prodromal labor, postpartum trauma and anxiety and placenta removal
Links:
Shira’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dyadsupport/
Shira’s website: www.DyadSupport.com
Doing It At Home book on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B098GVJ9KL?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860
DIAH website: https://www.diahpodcast.com/
DIAH Facebook Group: https://bit.ly/3jKtIYv
DIAH Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/doingitathome/
DIAH YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGoKeBfEZ143sWU7V9I5Gdg
DIAH Store: https://yoursuccessfulhomebirth.com/
DIAH Merch: https://bit.ly/3qhwgAe
Donate to DIAH: https://bit.ly/3qgm4r9
Released:
Nov 9, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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